You’re totally right; I had forgotten about that. So I retracted my above comment, only to realize that it doesn’t necessarily ruin my theory. Whether they were dating or merely friends, Lily and Snape would have fought over his Death Eater tendencies, and they are what would have ruined the relationship. Dumbledore could have seen their relationship falling apart and tried to reconcile it any way he could.
But yeah, that seems a lot more far-fetched when you take Eliezer’s prior mistake into consideration.
You’re totally right; I had forgotten about that. So I retracted my above comment, only to realize that it doesn’t necessarily ruin my theory. Whether they were dating or merely friends, Lily and Snape would have fought over his Death Eater tendencies, and they are what would have ruined the relationship. Dumbledore could have seen their relationship falling apart and tried to reconcile it any way he could.
But yeah, that seems a lot more far-fetched when you take Eliezer’s prior mistake into consideration.